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Enrollment
887
Elementary
DISTRICT 342 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #17·NCES 360009502649
PS 189 BILINGUAL CENTER (THE)
1100 E NEW YORK AVE, BROOKLYN, NY 11212 · (718) 756-0210 · Kings County
GRADES KG–08ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL887 STUDENTS
B+
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Scored higher than 71% of New York public elementary schools
- BTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded New York public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
12.8:1
69 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.3:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
97%
862 students
DISTRICT 87% · STATE 58%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 64 | 7% |
| Grade 1 | 86 | 10% |
| Grade 2 | 81 | 9% |
| Grade 3 | 90 | 10% |
| Grade 4 | 86 | 10% |
| Grade 5 | 99 | 11% |
| Grade 6 | 99 | 11% |
| Grade 7 | 131 | 15% |
| Grade 8 | 150 | 17% |
| Ungraded | 1 | 0% |
This year's kindergarten class (64) is 57% smaller than its 8th grade class (150).
Student demographics
49%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 48% · STATE 72% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
54.9%
NY avg 58.3% . +1.1pp since 2023
Math
53.8%
NY avg 57.4% . +2.7pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 55 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 54 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are up about 1 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 54.9% | 53.8% |
| 2023-24 | 53.8% | 51.1% |
% Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4), all students and all tested grades.
Source: NYS Assessments. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
54.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
39.3%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+15.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 55% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 39% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among New York's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like PS 189 BILINGUAL CENTER (THE)
PS 189 BILINGUAL CENTER (THE)'s state test result (54.6% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PS 189 BILINGUAL CENTER (THE) this school | 887 | 97.2% | 54.6% |
| ROCHESTER PREP CHARTER SCHOOL 3 ROCHESTER | 826 | 90.4% | 40.8% |
| SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-BRONX 2 BRONX | 904 | 89.3% | 90.8% |
| SOUTHSIDE ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL SYRACUSE | 685 | 95.8% | 25.2% |
| BROOKLYN SCHOLARS CHARTER SCHOOL BROOKLYN | 728 | 89.1% | 58.8% |
| UNCOMMON BROWNSVILLE SOUTH CHARTER SCHOOL NYC BROOKLYN | 748 | 93.3% | 59.0% |
Matched among New York elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where PS 189 BILINGUAL CENTER (THE) ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Kings County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 54.6% | #976 of 2,335 | #150 of 290 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 53.8% | #1,305 of 2,342 ▼ 69 | #194 of 290 ▼ 24 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 54.9% | #1,160 of 2,343 ▼ 412 | #194 of 290 ▼ 78 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 887 | #85 of 2,585 | #26 of 306 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.8:1 | #1,574 of 2,338 | #146 of 249 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 49.3% | #1,268 of 2,388 | #159 of 263 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 97.2% | #83 of 2,534 | #14 of 300 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -14.1% | #896 of 1,757 | #164 of 225 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
887
-47 (-5%) vs 2020
-30% since 2010-11, when it was 1,270
Student : Teacher
12.8:1
was 12.6:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 887 | 69 | 12.8:1 | 97% (862) |
| 2023-24 | 897 | 71.5 | 12.6:1 | 96% (864) |
| 2022-23 | 903 | 73.6 | 12.3:1 | 94% (850) |
| 2020-21 | 934 | 74 | 12.6:1 | 91% (850) |
| 2017-18 | 1,033 | 74 | 13.9:1 | 93% (957) |
| 2015-16 | 1,040 | 68 | 15.3:1 | 92% (953) |
| 2010-11 | 1,270 | 76 | 16.7:1 | 83% (1,052) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PS 189 BILINGUAL CENTER (THE).
About PS 189 BILINGUAL CENTER (THE)
PS 189 BILINGUAL CENTER (THE) is a large elementary school serving families in BROOKLYN, New York. It covers kindergarten through 8, with a total enrollment of 887 students. Enrollment is 100% higher than the average for elementary schools in New York, which is about 443.
District-wide, NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #17 has 49 schools and 16,990 students.
Roughly 66% of students at PS 189 BILINGUAL CENTER (THE) are Black. Other groups make up 27% Hispanic and 4% White. County-wide, 28% of Kings County residents are Black. Pick two students at random and there is a 49% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
PS 189 BILINGUAL CENTER (THE) employs 69 full-time-equivalent teachers. That gives a ratio of about 12.8:1. That is close to the 12.8:1 average for elementary schools in New York. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility was 97% in 2024-25. That rate is above the 79% average among public schools in Kings County.
PS 189 BILINGUAL CENTER (THE) is graded B+ by allk12, scoring above 71% of New York public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
Schools in New York with a similar free or reduced-price lunch share are predicted to score about 39.3%. PS 189 BILINGUAL CENTER (THE) scores 54.6%.
Kings County has about 2,631,580 residents, and the median household income is $80,263, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 15% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Besides PS 189 BILINGUAL CENTER (THE), Kings County has 582 other public schools.
The next-closest public school is BROWNSVILLE ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL, about 0.1 miles away. PS 189 BILINGUAL CENTER (THE) is one of several public schools in the area, with at least 8 others within five miles. PS 189 BILINGUAL CENTER (THE) ranks 3rd of 8 among nearby schools on average proficiency, with 54.6% against a local average of 42.4%.
NCES describes the area around PS 189 BILINGUAL CENTER (THE) as City: Large, meaning inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
PS 189 BILINGUAL CENTER (THE)'s enrollment dropped from 934 in 2020-21 to 887 in 2024-25.
Parents and students can post about sports tryouts, band and choir, and theater at PS 189 BILINGUAL CENTER (THE). Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
Kings County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
2,631,580
Census ACS
Median income
$80,263
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
42%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
15%
Below federal line
Schools in county
583
291,697 students
Quick facts
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- MIDWOOD HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,657 students
- EDWARD R MURROW HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,503 students
- FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,403 students
Nearby schools
- BROWNSVILLE ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL0.1 mi · 86
- ASPIRATIONS DIPLOMA PLUS HIGH SCHOOL0.1 mi · 131
- PS 398 WALTER WEAVER0.2 mi · 212
- PS 770 NEW AMERICAN ACADEMY0.2 mi · 266
- BROOKLYN ASCEND CHARTER SCHOOL 60.3 mi · 141
- PS 156 WAVERLY0.4 mi · 421
Frequently asked questions
About PS 189 BILINGUAL CENTER (THE)How large is PS 189 BILINGUAL CENTER (THE)?
PS 189 BILINGUAL CENTER (THE) enrolls approximately 887 students in grades KG-08.
What age range does PS 189 BILINGUAL CENTER (THE) serve?
PS 189 BILINGUAL CENTER (THE) serves students from grade KG through grade 08.
How many teachers does PS 189 BILINGUAL CENTER (THE) have?
PS 189 BILINGUAL CENTER (THE) employs 69 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 12.8:1.
What is the student diversity at PS 189 BILINGUAL CENTER (THE)?
Student demographics at PS 189 BILINGUAL CENTER (THE) are roughly 4% White, 27% Hispanic, 66% Black, 1% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Is PS 189 BILINGUAL CENTER (THE) public or private?
PS 189 BILINGUAL CENTER (THE) is a public K-12 school, overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #17.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.